Yup it would be very nice of Blackberry to send PlayBook owners the runtime update while we are waiting for BlackBerry10. My PlayBook would do backflips if I could load things like Skype, Netflix and Instagram on it.

It isn't exactly a "VM". Any CS student will know that write once/run everywhere languages such as java compile to a special byte code that is assessed and executed by an implementation layer (which is also often erratically referred to as VM). This layer in android is called Dalvik. Afaik, RIM has just ported that same layer (Dalvik) to their QNX kernel.

It isn't exactly a "VM". Any CS student will know that write once/run everywhere languages such as java compile to a special byte code that is assessed and executed by an implementation layer (which is also often erratically referred to as VM). This layer in android is called Dalvik. Afaik, RIM has just ported that same layer (Dalvik) to their QNX kernel.